Based on a hard-boiled novel by Charles Willeford, this sweaty, sultry film has us questioning hedonism and the struggle between order and chaos. Between writer/director George Armitage, a very shirtless Alec Baldwin and killer performances by Jennifer Jason Leigh and Fred Ward… we’ve got plenty to talk about.
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- Miami Blues (the film)
- Miami Blues (the book)
- Grosse Point Blank
- Spartan
- Cast A Deadly Spell
- Tremors
- The Killing
- Top of the Lake
Additional Resources:
- Interview: George Armitage
- Pinkerton, N. (2015). PRINCE OF PULP. Sight & Sound, 25(7), 98.
- Fisher, M. J. (2000). The Unlikely Father of Miami Crime Fiction. Atlantic, 285(5), 117-121.
- Olson, Kirby. Comedy after Postmodernism: Rereading Comedy from Edward Lear to Charles Willeford . Lubbock, TX: Texas Tech University Press, 2001
- When Satire Fails
- Miami Blues
- The New Cult Canon: Miami Blues
- Pastel Noir: George Armitage’s MIAMI BLUES
- Miami Blues
- The Overlooked Sunshine Noir ‘Miami Blues’ Finally Hits Blu-Ray